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Here is a literary product which is at once an admirable example of the force Bell Syn- | of simple realism in the description of | things which are dificult of ordinary | comprekension, | guide for every prospective soldier of and a handbook and our armics. Sergeant McClintock has not written stories about the war. He has writien the war itself, reducing it, one might almost say, to words of one syllable, | yet bringing to the reader's view, clear- ly and vividly, the various aspects of the great struggle, hidden to all except the man who is actually a part of ft. His contribution to the history of the war must be classed as one which shines with a new light. It is fascinating in ils simplicity, yet thrilling in dts convincing detail. It leads one, with evergrowing and com- pelling interest, from a casual conver sation in a hotel in New York through scenes of strife and blood and thrilling conflict to the moment when the king and queen of England came to the bed- side of a Kentucky youth in a London hospital to thank him in the mame of their nation for his services in the ognize as that of world humanity. Sergeant McClintock received the Dis- tinguished Conduct medal before leav- ing England for home on leave. He is returning to accept a commission in the Canadian overseas forces. The story is told in McClintock's own unadorned way. DON'T lay claim to being much of a writer, and up till now { bave never felt the call to write any- thing about my experiences -with the Canadian troops in Belgium and a great many other men saw quite as much as I did and could beat me tell- ing about it. Of course I believed that my experience was worth relating, and 1 thought that the matter published in the newspapers by professional writ- ers sort of missed the essentials and lacked the spirit of the "ditches" in a good many ways in spite of its excel- lent literary style, but I didn't see any reason why it was up to me to make an effort as a war historian until now. Now there is a reason, as I look at it. 1 believe 1 can show the two or three millions of my fellow countrymen who over what they are going to be up against and what they ought to pre- pare for personally and individually. That is as far as 1 am going to go in the way of excuse, explanation or com- "Boys, for God's cake don't call me Harry. Here comes the general!" ment, call it what sou will. The rost of my story is » simple relation of facts und occurrenves in the order in which they «aime #6 my notice ind bap pened to me. If may start off a Atte slowly and Jerkily, Just ps we did. bot Hike to adi] that It got quite lint enopgh to suit me Inter several times, There fore. ax my effort Is going to be to Seems (0 come off at Srst. | felt a Jit tle ennui myself at the getaway. But anuoy we later, that the United States to be igh 'Trance Sergeant Alexander McClintock of Lex- ington, Ky., and the Canadian Army Has Gripping Tale That Every American Will Read, For He Tells the Facts--Unadorn- Wounded, a Distinguished Conduct Medal Man, He Was Invalided Home, but Is Going "Out There" Again to Fight For Uncle Sam and His Allies. spring, Interesting, Personal Narrafive, Full of the Spint and Atmosphere of the Trenches. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1917. "OVER THERE" The Thrill and the Hell of the Trenches, Described by an American Boy. An In- bad been treated, if 1ut ho other reason, As there seemed to Le a considerable division of opinion on this point among the people at home, [ came to the con- clusion ®hat any man who was free, white and twenty-one and felt as I did ought to go over and get into it single banded on the side where his convic- tions led him. if there wasn't some par- ticulsr reason why he couldn't. There- fore 1 said goodby to my parents and friends in Lexington and started for New York with the idea of sailing for France and joining the Foreign legion of the French army. Decides to Go to Canada. A couple of nights after I got to New York I fell into conversation in the Koickerbocker bar with a chap who | was in the re-enforcement company of Princess Pat's regiment of the Cana- dian forces. After my talk with Lim I decided to go up to Canada and look things over. I arrived at the Windsor hotel, in Montreal, at 8 o'¢lock in the morning a couple of days later. and at 10 o'clock that morning I was sworn in as a private in the Canadian Grena- dier guards, Eighty-seventh overseas battalion, Lieutenant Colonel F. 8. Meighen commanding. They were just | getting under way, making soldiers out | of the troops I enlisted with, and dis- | cipline was quite lax. { They at once gave me a week's leave | to come down to New York and settle up some personal affairs, and I over- | stayed it five'days. All that my com- | pany commander said to me when I | got back was that I seemed to have | | 1y. picked up Canadian habits very quick- | At a review one day in our trains { Ing camp I heard a major say: cause which we have now come to rec- | | | | | | "Boys, for God's sake don't call me Harry or spit in the ranks. Here comes the general!" We found out eventually that there was a reason for 'the slackness of dis- cipline. The trouble. was that men* would enlist to get $1.10 a day with- { out working for it and would desert | were about. France, because I have realized that ' | | | | | | | | will be "out there" before this war is | { only by a general court martial. though | us until we of knowing what was coming to ws. td | carry roy rizlt along with we in this | agcount of ny experiences, don't be ! mpatient if nothing very important that was certainly one thing that didn't . : In the latter part of October, 1015, I as soOn as any one made it nnpleasant for them. Our officers knew what they Conditions changed in- stantly we went on shipboard. Discl. pline tightened up on us like a tie rope on a colt. ! We trained in a sort of casual, easy way in Canada from Nov. 4 to the fol- lowing April. We had a good deal of trouble keeping our battalion up to strength, and I was_sent out several times with other "wéhcoms" on a re- cruiting detail. While we were in the training camp at St. John's I made the acquaintance of a foung Canadian who became my "pal." He was Campbell McFarland, nephew of George McFar- Jand, the actor who is so well known on the American musical stage. He was a sergeant. When I first knew him he was one of the most delightful and amusing young fellows you could imagine. The war changed him entirely. He became extremely quiet and seemed to be borne down with the sense of the terrible things which he saw, He nev- er lost the good fellowship which was inherent in him and was always ready to do anything to oblige me. but he formed the 'habit-of sitting. alone and silent, for hours at a time, just think- ing. It seemed as if he had a premoni- tion about himself, though he never showed fear and never spoke of the dangers we were going into, as_the other fellows did. He was killed in the Somme action in which | was wounded. ; I also bad been made a sergeant on account of the fact that I had Leen at school in the Virginia Military*in- stitute--that is, 1 was an acting sei- geant. It was explained to me that my appointment would have to be confirmed in England and then recon: firmed after three months' service in France. Under the regulations of the Canadian forces a noncommissioned officer, after final confirmation in his grade. can be reduced to the ranks he can escape a court martial. when confronted with eharges. 'by reverting to the ranks at his own request, Forty-two hundred of us sailed for England on the Empress of Britain, sister ship to the Empress of Ireland. which was stink in the St. Lawrence river. The steamer was. of cotirss, very crowded and uncomfortable, and the eight dar frip across was most un- pleasant. We lad tripe to eat until we were sick of the sight of it. A sergeant reported ane morning. "Eight men and twenty-two breakfasts ab sent." There were two other troop ships in our convoy. the Raitic and the Metagama. A British crulser astorted were 400 miles off the coast Then each ship picked up destroyer which lad; come out to! At that time a notice was Ws training tn ihe ¥. M shis ta Exad wemaphare sig | suggested | they went any faster, they might run | off the island before they could stop. | We were taken to Bramshott camp, in the | pals, and I the destroyer which escorted read: "Each ship for herself now. a break!" caught the message from us. It Make We beat the other steamers of our convoy eight hours in gefting to the dock in Liverpool. and, according to what seemed to be the regular system of our operations at that time, we were the last to disembark. The majority of our fellows had nev. er been in England before, and they | looked on our travels at that time as a fine lark. Everybody cheered and | laughed when they dusted off one of | those little toy trains and brought it up to take us away in it. After we | were aboard of jt we proceeded at the | dizzy rate of about four miles an hour, and our regular company humorist-- no company complete without that they were afraid, if Hampshire, twelve miles from Aldershot school of command. The next day we were givén "king's leave" --eight days, with free transportation anywhere in the British Isles, It is the invariable custom to give this sort of leave to all colonial troops immedi- ately upon their arrival in England. However, in our case Irelfnd was bar- red. Just at that time Ireland was no place for a newly arrived Canadian looking for sport. After that they really began to make soldiers of us. We thought our train. ing in Canada had amounted to some- thing. We found out that we might as well have been playing croquet. After That They Really Began to Make Soldiers of Us. We learned more the first week of our | actual training in England' than we | did from November to April in Cana- da. 1 make this statement without fear that any officer or man of the Canadian forces alive today will dis- agree with me, and I submit it for the thoughtful consideration of the gen- tiemen who believe that our own armies can be prepared for service here at home. In this war every man has got to be, a specialist. He's got to know one thing better than anybody else except those who have had intensive instruc. tion in the same branch. And. besides one | PAGE FIFTEL'N lo Soom NEI BAKING der Yr" © WINNIPEG century reputation should of these ingredients. E.W.GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED MAGI BAKING POWDER CONTAINS. NO ALUM ¢ pov. the purest baking powder possible o produce. a " The perfect leavening qualities of purity and wholesom It is a pure phosphate bakin and is best and guaranteed by us to TORONTO.ONT. " Magic " "combined with its eness make it the ideal baking powder. The ingredients are plainly printed on the.label and our half be sufficient guarantee of the high quality MONTREAL that, he's got to have erective general knowledge of all the specialties in which his fellow soldiers have been particularly trained. I can illustrate this, Immediately upoi our return from first leave in England we were divided into sections for training in eight specialties. They were: Bombing, sniping, scouting, machine gun fight- ing, signaling, trench mortar operation, bayonet fighting and stretcher bearing. 1 was selected for special training in bombing, probably because I was sup. posed, as an American and a baseball player, to be expert in throwing. With the other men picked for training in the same specialty, I was sent to Al- dershot, and there for three weeks, twelve hours a day, | threw bombs, studied bombs, read about bombs, took bombs to pieces to see what made them tick and put them together again and did practically everything else that you could do with a bomb, except eat it. 'Then I was ordered back along with the other men who had gained this intimate acquaintance with the entire bomb family, and we were put to work teaching the entire battalion all that we had learnéd. When we were not teaching we were under instruction ourselves by the men who had taken special training in other branches. Also at certain periods of the day we had physical training and rifle prac- tice. Up to the time of our arrival in England intensive training had been merely a fine phrase with us. During our stay there it was a definite and overpowering fact. Day and night we trained, and day and night it rained. At 9 o'clock we would fall into our bunks in huts which beld from a halt to a whole platoon--from thirty to six- ty men--and drop into exhausted sleep, only to turn out at 5 a. m. to give a sudden and exact imitation of what we would do to the Germans if they sneaked up on us before breakfast in six inches of mud. Toward the last, when we thought we had been driven to the limit, they told us that we were to have a period of real, intensive train. ing to harden us for actual fighting. They sent us four imperial drill ser- geants from the British grenadier guards, the senior foot regiment of the British army ana we one with which we were affiliated. It would be quite unavailing for me i to attempt to describe these drill ser- geants. The British drill sergeant is an institution which can be understood only through personal and close con- tact and is about as cordial as loose electricity. If he thinks'a major gen- eral is wrong he'll tell him so on the spot in the most emphatic way, but without ever violating a single sacred tradition of the service. The sergeants who took us in charge to put on the real polish to our training had all seen from twenty to twenty-five years of service. They had all been through the battles of Mons and the Marne, and they had all been wounded. They were perfect examples of a type. One of them ordered all of our commission- ed officers, from the colonel down, to turn out for rifle drill one day and put them through the manual of arms while the soldiers of the battalion stood around looking 'on. "Gentlemen," sald he very politely in the midst of the drill, "when I see you handle your ritles 1 feel like fall- ing on my knees and thanking God that we've got a navy." A Call For Volunteers. On June 2, after the third battle of Ypres, while McFarland and 1 were sitting wearily on our bunks diufring a strange hour in the afternoon when nobody had thought of anything for us to do, a soldier came in with a message from beadquarters which put a sudden stop to the discussion we were having about the possibility of getting leave to go up to London. The message was that the First, Second and Third divisions of the Canadians had lost 40 per cent of their men in the third fight at Ypres and that 300 volun teers were wanted from each of our battalions to fill up the gaps. "Forty per cent," said McFarland, getting up quickly, "My God, think of it! Well, I'm off to te!l "em I'll go." I told him 1 was with him. and we started for headquarters, expecting to be received with applause and pointed out as heroic examples. We couldn't even get &p to give in our names. Th whole battalion bag : up abead of us. They weuru a: nurse. -'tnat was the spirit of the Canadians. It was about this time that a story went round concerning an English colonel who had been called upon to furnish volunteers from his outfit to replace casualties, He backed his regiment up against a barrack wall and said: "Now, all who don't want to volun- teer step three paces to the rear." In our battalion sergeants and even officers offered to go as privates. Me- Farland and | were not accepted; our volunteers went at once, and we were re-enforced up to strength by drafts from the Fifth Canadian division, which was then forming in England. In July, when we were being kept on the rifle ranges most of the time, all leave was stopped, and we were ordered to hold ourselves in readiness to go overseas. In the latter part of the month we started. We sailed from Southampton to Havre on a big trans. pdrt, escorted all the way by destroy- ers. As we landed we got our first sight of the harvest of war. A big hos- pital on the quay was filled with wounded men. We had twenty-four bours in what they called a "rest camp." We slept on cobblestones in shacks which were so utterly comfort. less that it would be an insult to a Kentucky thoroughbred to call them stables. Then we were on the way to the Belgian town of Poperinghe, which is 150 miles from Havre apd was at that time the rail head of the Ypres salient. We made the trip in box cars which were marked in French, "Eight horses or forty men." and we had to draw straws to decide whe should lle down. In the Front Trenches, We got into Poperinghe at 7 a. m., and the scouts bad led us into the front trenches at 2 the next morning. Our position was to the left of St. Elo} and was kpown as "the island," be cause it had no support on either flank, On the left were the Yser canal and the bluff which forms its bank. On the right were 300 yard§ of battered down trenches, which bad been rebuilt twice and blown in again each time by the German guns. For some rea- son, which I never quite understood, (Continued on Page 17.) r= Recently a record was kept of several thousand men who were examined. The average age was 80, and 97 per cent. were found to be defective in one way or another." Most of those included in this class were unaware of any Pgaltuent o Dealth. 1t6 have pills in the house for general use." Tae of the kidneys and for years, but life on gin ng Brn ste suffering and terrors, is teaching us many lessons. As the result of strict medical examinations many are learning of defects and of derangements which they had not even sus- pected. T™ great war, with all its % 23 per cent. hardening of -the arteries, Many of these men would live Startling Facts Brought Out ~ By Strict Medical Examination 35Per Cent. of Several Thou- sands Examined Had Kidney Trouble appearing Ont., writes : pains in the back. could be Dr. sults, wonderful The Evidence Mr. J. F. Robson, R.R. 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